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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Physician
Physician Writer
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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